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(The index lists the names and degrees of the writers of the contents. It includes the name of J. Cumming (BA, 1801), but there is no declamation by him in the volume.)

Paris.—Sends him a copy of the discourse he addressed to the general assembly of the Beaurepaire section (of Paris) on 25 Dec. 1793 (see ff. 1–7 below). Has sent a copy to the Committee of Public Safety, offering his services to the committee as a political agent in America, Gênes, Venice, or the Swiss cantons. Asks his correspondent to support this proposal if he has occasion to speak to any member of the committee.

(Inscribed ‘From the Author’. There is no fellow or tutor of Trinity named John Jones. The subject of the elegy is presumably Thomas Jones, who was a tutor at Trinity from 1787 till his death in 1807, though he did not achieve the degree of BD.)

MS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below the letter: 'Letter of T. B. M. to his sisters in England from India May 9 1836. The 'baby' is Margaret Trevelyan his niece'.

These leaves are paginated 39–40, 29–38, 41–64 in red pencil.

(An earlier draft of the briefs on ff. 1-7.)

Docketed ‘Extracts From The Chæv: D’Æon’s Book’. The extracts relate to the Duke of Nevers (Nivernais).

Copy by Henry Thurstan Holland. In pencil.

Copy by Henry Thurstan Holland, dated.

Copy by Margaret Holland.

These leaves, with the frontispiece on f. 73v, comprise the whole work.

‘Publish’d as the Act directs.’ Captioned above, ‘Miss Fanny Davies’. The following quatrain appears below: ‘[Th]e Female Proteus here behold | [Wh]o rob’d the Grazier of his Gold | The Grazier would his Notes regain | But all his hopes alas! are Vain’.

Copy by Margaret Holland.

Consideration, £63. Witnessed by Hen. Harbin and Thomas Rea. ‘Sealed at the Rummer Tavern in the Strand.’